THE SHOWBUS LONDON & HOME COUNTIES BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Arriva the Shires Volvo B10B Plaxton Verde 3855 ablaze
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 Volvo 3855 had been intended for services with Go-Ahead in the North East. It was diverted to then new Go-Ahead subsidiary, City of Oxford, complete with Newcastle registrations. When Oxford acquired the Wycombe based operations of the disintegrating Beeline, 615 (as it then was) was transferred from Oxford to Wycombe with six other singledoor buses of the same type for the 328 and 329 services to Reading which used to be shared with Reading Buses. Now repainted in the new premium style of Arriva livery it has promotional vinyls about the new "Connexions" arrangements in Wycombe with services to Amersham, Aylesbury, Slough and Reading timed to leave at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour to enable through connections. The bus is seen one morning in June 2006 in West Street, Marlow in its new guise and complete with new digital destination blind - as widely deployed on Wycombe vehicles, but not the Plaxton Verdes! |
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 Disaster struck on October 23rd 2006 just after 5pm as the bus passed through Marlow on its way back to Wycombe from Reading. The engine was making a dreadful noise and the driver got his 11 passengers out before the engine compartment burst into flame. By the time the fire brigade arrived there was not much lass to salvage. Ironically the bus is not far from the old Marlow Fire Station which was abandoned only months before. Maybe it would have faired better with quicker treatment. The pictures are all courtesy of Paul Staples who was passing by at the time. |
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